The Greatest Russian Poetry Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
142 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
418 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
566 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
974 The Gift Vladimir Nabokov 1938 Russian Russian
1844 The Poetry of Alexander Pushkin Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
1899 A Poem Without A Hero Anna Akhmatova 1960 Russian Russian
1909 The Demon Mikhail Lermontov 1829 Russian Russian
1941 A Cloud In Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky 1915 Russian Russian
1979 The Bedbug And Selected Poetry Vladimir Mayakovsky 1920 Russian Russian
2108 The Twelve Alexander Blok 1918 Russian Russian
2117 Boris Godunov Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
2242 The Bronze Horseman Alexander Pushkin 1837 Russian Russian
2252 The Little Tragedies Alexander Pushkin 1832 Russian Russian
2259 Четвёртая проза Osip Mandelstam 1930 Russian Russian
2294 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
2333 The Tale Of Igor's Campaign Unknown 1187 Russian Old east slavic
2346 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? Nikolay Nekrasov 1870 Russian Russian
2347 Zangezi Velimir Khlebnikov 1922 Russian Russian
2348 The Noise Of Time Osip Mandelstam 1925 Russian Russian
2351 The Gypsies Alexander Pushkin 1827 Russian Russian
2355 Poem Of The Mountain Marina Tsvetayeva 1924 Russian Russian
3438 Antiworlds Andrey Voznesensky 1964 Russian Russian
6661 Russia Is Burning Maria Bloshteyn 2020 Russian English
6893 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
7126 A History Of Russian Literature Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky 1926 Russian English
8736 Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 1912 Russian Russian
9243 An Arrow In The Wall Andrey Voznesensky 1987 Russian Russian
10662 My Half Century Anna Akhmatova 1997 Russian Russian
13497 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
13497 The King Of Time Velimir Khlebnikov 1920 Russian Russian
13497 Alexandrian Songs Mikhail Kuzmin 1906 Russian Russian
13497 Selected Poems Boris Pasternak 1943 Russian Russian
14251 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1970 Russian Russian
14371 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
14371 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian